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Senator Mnrlcy Vernon's visit with his
fluncfc was Interrupted by a onll from
his i ! i -. i.i. s at the state capital,
Both regretted It, the girl man than he,
because phi- had arranged to nttend a
dinner that evening with him. She paid
he yearned for a national office for him.
On Vernon's depk In the senate he found
a red rose, accompanied by a plea for
suffrage for women. He met the au
thoress, pretty Miss Maria Greene of
Chicago, who proposed to convert him
i Into voting for house resolution No. 19
Miss Greene secured Vernon's promise to
vote for the suffrage resolution. He also
aided her by convincing others He took
a liking to the fair suffragette. Miss
Greeno consulted with the lieutenant-governor.
Vernon admitted to himself that
the suffragette had stirred a strange feel
ing within him. He forgot to read his
fiancee's letter. Vernon made a great
speech In favor of suffrage, aided by
lances from Mlsa Greene.
CHAPTER V. Continued.
When he had done, there was a
moment's stillness; then came the long
sweep of applause that rang through
the chamber, and while the lieutenant
governor rapped for order, men
crowded around Vernon and wrung his
hand, as he wiped his forehead with
his handkerchief. And then the roll
was called. It had not proceeded far
when there was that subtile change In
the atmosphere which Is so easily rec
ognized by those who have acquired
the sense of political aeroscepsy; the
change that betokens some new, un
expected and dangerous maneuver.
Braldwood had come over from the
house. His face, framed in Its dark
beard, was stern and serious. He
whispered an Instant to Porter, the
senate leader. Porter rose.
"Mr. President," he said.
The lieutenant governor was looking
at him expectantly.
"The gentleman from Cook," the
lieutenant governor snld.
"Mr President," said Senator Por
ter. "I move you, sir, I hat the further
discussion of the resolution be post
poned until Wednesday morning, one
J.N week from to-morrow, and that it be
made a special order Immediately fol
' lowing the reading of the journal."
"If there are no objections it will
be so ordered," said the lieutenant
governor.
Bull Hums shouted a prompt and
hoarse "Object!"
But the lieutenant governor calmly
aid:
"And It is so ordered."
The gavel fell.
CHAPTER VI.
After the adjournment Vernon
sought out Maria Oreene and walked
with her down Capitol avenue toward
the hotel. He was prepared to enjoy
her congratulations, but she was silent
for a while, and before they spoke
again "Doc" Ames, striding rapidly,
had caught up with them. He was
still scowling.
"I was sorry you didn't finish your
speech as you intended, sir," he said,
with something of the acerbity of a
reproach.
"Why," began Vernon, looking at
him, "I"
"You laid out very broad and com
prehensive ground for yourself," the
old man continued, "but unfortunately
you did not cover It. You should have
developed your subject logically, as I
had hopes, Indeed, In the beginning,
you were going to do. An argument
based on principle would have been
more to the point than an appeal to
the passions. I think Miss Oreene will
agree with me. I am sorry you did not
acquaint me with your intention of
addressing the senate on this Impor
tant measure; I would very much have
liked to confer with you about what
you were going to say. It is not con
templated by those In the reform
movement that the charms of woman
shall be advanced as the reason for
her right to equal suffrage with man.
It is purely a matter of cold, abstract
Justice. Now, for Instance," the doctor
laid his finger hi his palm, and began
to speak didactically, "as I have
pointed out to the house, whatever the
power or the principle that gives to
man his right to make the law that
aaj governs him, to woman It gives the
earns right. In 37 states the married
mother has no right to her children;
in 16 the wife has no right to her own
earnings; In eight she has no separate
right to her property; In seven "
Vernon looked at Miss Oreene help
lessly, but she was nodding her head
in acquiescence to each point the doc
tor laid down In his harsh palm with
that long forefinger. Vernon had no
t nance to speak until they reached the
hotel. She was to lake the midday
train back to Chicago, and Vernon had
insisted on going to the station with
her. Just as she was about to leave
him to go up to her room she said, as
on a sudden impulse:
"Do you know thnt the women of
America, yes, the people of America,
owe yot a debt?"
Vernon assumed a most modest at
titude. "If we are successful," she went on,
"the advocates of equal suffrage all
over the United States will- be greatly
encouraged; (he reform movement
"I've missed my train." she said,
quietly.
Vernon grew red with confusion.
"I beg a thousand pardons!" he said.
"It wns all my fault and it was certain
ly very stupid of me."
"It's of no Importance. Where must
I go to reserve space on the night
train?" said Miss Oreene.
Vernon told her, and proffered his
services. He was now delighted at the
philosophical way In which she ac
cepted the situation It would have
brought the average woman, he re
flected, to tears and then he went on
to picture to himself the practical re
sults In Improving women's characters
that his new measure, as he had al
ready come to regard it, would bring
about.
CHAPTER VII.
Maria Oreene would not let Vernon
attend to her tickets'; she said it was
a matter of principle with her; but
late in the afternoon, when they had
had luncheon, and she hao got the
tickets herself, she did accept his in
vitation to drive. The afternoon had
! justified all the morning's promise of
J a fine spring day, and as they left the
edges of the town and turned Into the
road that stretched away over the low
undulations of ground they call hills
In Illinois, and lost Itself mysteriously
In the country far beyond, Miss
Greene became enthusiastic.
"Isn't It glorious!" she cried. "And
to think that when I left Chicago last
night it was still winter!" She shud
dered, as If she would shake off the
memory of the city's ugliness. Her
face was flushed and she inhaled the
sweet air eagerly.
"To be in the country once more!
she went on.
"Did you ever live In the country?"
Vernon nsked.
"Once," she said, and then after a
"Did You Ever Live in the Country?"
everywhere will receive a genuine Im
petus." "You will be down next Wednesday
when the resolution comes "up again,
won't you?" asked Vernon.
"Indeed, I shall," she said. "Do you
have any hopes now?"
"Hopes?" laughed Vernon. "Why,
certainly; we'll adopt It. I'll give my
whole time to It between now and
leglslutlon this session, appropriations
and all. I guess that will bring them
to time!"
"You're very good," she said. "But
I fear Mr. Porter's Influence."
"Oh, I'll take care of him. You
trust it to me. The women will be
voting In this state next year."
"And you shall be their candidate
for governor!" she cried, clasping her
hands.
Vernon colored; he felt a warm
thrill course through him, but he
waved the nomination aside with his
hand. He was about to say something
more, but he could not think of any
thing quickly enough. While he hesi
tated, Mi:.:, Oreene looked at her
watch.
grave pause, she added: "A long time
ago."
The road they had turned Into was
as soft and as smooth as velvet now
that the spring had released It from
the thrall of winter's mud. It led be
side a golf links, and the new greens
were already dotted with golfers, who
played with the zest they had accumu
lated in the forbidding winter months.
They showed their enthusiasm by play
ing bare-armed, as If already It were
the height of summer.
As the buggy rolled noiselessly
along, Vernon and Miss Greene were si
lent; the spell of the spring was on
them. To their right rolled the prai
ries, that never can become mere
fields, however much they be tilled or
fenced. The brown earth, with Its
tinge of young green here and there,
or Its newly plowed clods glistening
and steuuiinj; in the sun, rolled away
like the sea. Far off, standing out
black and forbidding against the hori
zon, they could see the ugly buildings
of a coal shaft; behind, above the
trees that grew for the city's shade,
the convent lifted ita tower, and, above
all. the gray dome of the State Horn
reared ltSCtlf dominating the whole
scene. Tho air shimmered In the base
of spring. Birds were chit ping In the
hedges; now and then a meadow lark
sprang Into I he air and fled, crying out
its r.trange staccato song as It
skimmed the surface of the prairies.
Vernon Idly snapped the whip as ho
drove along; neither of them seemed
to care to speak. Suddenly thoy
heard a distant, heavy thud. Tho
ea.di trembled slightly.
"What's that?" said Miss Oreene, In
some nlarm. "It couldn't have been
thunder."
"No." said Vernon, "It was the min
ers, blasting."
"Where?"
"Down In the ground underneath
us."
She gave him a strange look which
he did not comprehend. Then sho
turned and glanced quickly at the block
breakers of the coal shaft, half a mile
I away; then at the golf-players.
"Do the mines run under this
ground?" she asked, sweeping her
hand about and including the links in
her gesture.
"Yes, all over here, or rather under
here," Vernon sa'd. He was proud of
i his knowledge of th locnllty. He
I thought It argued well that a legislator
' should be Informed on all questions.
i Maria thought n moment, then she
said:
"The golfers above, the minors be
low." Vernon looked at her In surprise.
1 The pleasure of the spring had gone
out of her eyes.
"Drive on, please," she Bald.
"There's no danger," said Vernon,
reassuringly, clucking nt his horse
and the benst flung up Its head In a
spasmodic burst of sieed. as livery
stable horses will. The horse did not
have to trot very far to bear them
away from tho crack of the golf balls
and the dull subterranean echoes of
the mInerB' blasts, but Vernon felt
that a cloud had floated all at once
over this first spring day. The womnn
sitting there beside him seemed to
withdraw herself to an Infinite dis
tance. "You love the country?" he asked,
feeling the need of speech.
"Yes," she said, but she went no
farther.
"And you once lived there?"
"Yes." she said again, but she vouch
safed no more. Vernon found a deep
curiosity springing within him; he
longed to know more about this young
woman who In all qutward ways
seemed to be Just like the women he
knew, and yet was ho essentially dif
ferent from them. But though he tried,
he could not move her to speak of her
own life or Its affairs. At the last ho
said boldly:
"Tell mo, how did you come to be
a lawyer?"
Miss Greene turned to meet his In
quisitive gaze.
"How did you?" she asked.
Vernon cracked his whip at the
road. a
"Well " he stammered. "I don't
know. 1 had to do something."
"So did I," she replied.
Vernon cut tho lazy horse with the
whip, and the horse jerked the buggy
as It made Its professional feint at
trotting.
(TO UK CONTINUED.)
LIKED THE FIGHTING AP08TLI.
Name of 8t. Peter Appealed to Heart
Of Soldier.
It la well known that Ellas Howe,
the Inventor of the sewing machine,
rot only enlisted as a common soldier
In the ranks of the Seventeenth Con
necticut regiment, carried a musket,
and did full military duty during the
war. but at a certain Juncture, when
national finances were at a low ebb.
he paid soldiers out of his own pocket.
Relative to this incident, P. T. Barnum
used to tell this story:
"While Mr. Howe was counting out
the money referred to, a stranger, who
was a clergyman, entered the tent and
said he had heard of Mr. Howe's lib
erality and had called to ask him to
contribute toward building a church
for his congregation.
" 'Church, church,' aald Mr. Howe
without looking up from his bills he
was counting; 'building churches In
war times, when so much is needed to
save our country! What church Is
It?'
"'St. Peter's church,' replied th
clergyman.
" 'Oh, St. Peter's,' said Mr. How ,
'well, St. Peter was the only fighting
apobtle he cut a man's ear off. I'll
go 500 on 3t. Peter, but I am spend
ing most of my money on saltpeter
now.' "
Idea by No Means New.
The object of New York's newest
club Is to eat wisely but not too well.
That Is, to educate housewives in the
domestic sciences. But this Idea Is as
old as the hills and was tried by Bos
ton years ago with more or less fail
ure. Clubs of domestic science are all
over the United States now and one
can determine their value to society
by harking back to the old days of the
simple life when eating and the prepa
ration of food was not the main object
and the servant problem had not
started on its wild career.
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CUBANS ARE HAVING TROUBLE H
Qomex Announces He Will Make Ap. Wl
polntments Without Considering bV'BbbbI
Any Faction. K H
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the administration of President Palma m H
has the political atmosphere of Cuba M
been more obscured and more laden J H
with suggestions of trouble than now. H
The re-established republic la ; 9
scnrcely nine months old, and alrendy 'I.sbbbb!
rumors are persistent that some way 'bbbb!
is being sought to secure the retire- H H
ment of President Gomez, either by ISaaaaal
persuasion or compulsion, and to SbbbbbI
place Vice-President Zayas at tho H
head of tho nation. '"bbbbbI
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that the president faces is that result- assail
lug from the continued failure of ef- IbbbbbbI
torts lo effect a complete fusion be- Laaaaal
iwi en his partisan and those of Vice- iiiiifl
President ZayaB. For three years JbbbbbbI
negotiations to this end have been In H
progress, and at least half a dozen Laafl
times announcement has been made ot H
their success. In tho presidential cam- H
pa I un there was a truce, but, with the -Sfl
beginning of the distribution of offices JH
under the new administration, mutual jH
distrust was re-established. H
A few days ago General Gomel .H
startled liberal leaders In a letter in
which ho stated that, so far as he wna jH
officially concerned, he hud decided to
consider the fusion ns an accomplished
fact and In view of this, he would 1
make appointments to his cabinet H
without reference to tho particular jH
faction of the liberal party to which H
tbe appointee might have belonged. LH
LARGE OFFICIAL FAMILY. M
The Employes of Uncle Sam Exceed
370,000. M
Washington. Tho personnel of Un- LB
Ole Sam's establishment Is Increasing Laaaal
by leaps and bounds, the grand total VbbbbI
of all federal employe being approxl- 'sbbbI
mately :t70.0G5, against 306,141 in fil
1907, an lncreaso in the two years ot j
63.924, or 20 per cent. These and H
other interesting facta are brought out ,
in tho official register, or government JH
"Blue Book," for 1909, soon to be la jH
sued by the census bureau. H
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The District of Columbia loads all M
the states and territories In the num- M
ber of persons working for the gov- M
ernment In this city. Arizona is cred- M
ltod with tho smallest number nine. M
teen wtjose aggregate salaries H
amount to $25,226. JbsbbbI
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Couldn't Hit a Balloon. H
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New York. An anchored balloon M
sent up off Sandy Hook, at a contlnu- M
ation of the army's test of aerial war- H
fare, passed unscathed through a Are M
from a gun especially designed for M
the purpose. Twenty shots In all were JH
fired, but none hit the bag. Results M
of the experiment are being kept a H
secret. The balloon was fired upon H
at a height of about 500 feet, but H
whether the failure from the weapon's M
Inefficiency or poor marksmanship M
could not be ascertained. M
Labor Leadera Appeal to Higher M
Washington On behalf of Samuel H
Gompers, John Mitchell and Prank M
Morrison, the labor leaders, a petition M
was filed In tbe supreme court of the H
United States on Saturday for a writ M
of certiorari requiring the court of H
appeals of the District of Columbia H
to certify to the nation's highest tri- H
hiinni for Its revision and determlna- M
tlon the appeal by them In the famous M
Bucks Stove & Kange case. M
Shot the Wrong Man. M
Paris. A man, believed to be In- H
sane and having an Imaginary grlev- H
a nee against the war department, shot H
and seriously wounded Oenerai Verand H
on Sunday, on the steps of the Hotel H
Continental, as the general was en- H
terlng the building to attend a ban- H
quel. Tbe man was arrested. Later H
it was learned that he had mistakeD H
Oenerai Verand for General lima, JH
minister of war. The attempted as- H
sassinatlon created a sensation. H
Accident Causes Eearthquake Rumors. H
San Krancisco. The failure of an H
engine in one of the big pou.-i houses, H
caused by a shutting off of the feed H
water condenser, Interrupted all tele H
graphic and telephone commun'catlon H
with the outside world for a few mlnv H
utes Saturday night, bul Isolated :ian fl
Francisco long enough to give rise to lH
a flood of rumors throughout the coun- M
try that the Interruption had been
caused by an earthquake. For about 1
twenty minutes the hundreds of wlrei H
nruiUng east, north and south were H
Enormous Production of Tobacoo. H
Washington. More than 160,000,.
000 iHiunds of cigar tobacco and near M
ly tour times that quantity of the tM
other types of tobacco was grown In BH
the United States In 1908, according H
to a bulletin issued by the department bbbbbb!
of agriculture. Kentucky leads all M
the states in tobacco growing, produo- M
lng more than one-third of the orop H
of the country. While some tobacco
is produced in almost every state, leas H
lhan 1 per cent of this country's crop H
Is grown west Ql the Mississippi river. H
